Free, as in Speech (Cool Tools)

We're halfway through day 2 of the 2015 Datathon Challenge and want to provide some information on the tools and resources we used throughout the challenge.

The cool thing about VA MedPulse is that it is completely free for commercial use. VA MedPulse uses open source technology for application programming interfaces (API) and free community licenses. A few of the useful tools include:

• Font Awesome - Fonts
• Blogspot - Blogging
• Rally Dev - Project Management | Community Version
• GitHub - Source E-Control
• Jvectormap - Mapping Tool
• Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition - Application Development

Day 1 - Retrospective

The DMV Data Drivers are wrapping up day 1 of the Datathon Challenge by providing a retrospective for day 1.

Our electronic KANBAN Board (Rally Dev) shown below provides an overview of the work that was completed during day 1 of the challenge and the work that will continue into day 2.

Lessons Learned

• Check hardware and system access
• Conduct a thorough analysis of available data sets prior to the start

What Went Well

• Integration of Agile methodology and tools under extreme time constraints
• Overcame obstacles quickly when they were identified

Application Datasets - Sources

In this post the DMV Data Drivers will be tracking the sources and datasets used to create the VA MedPulse application.

Datathon rules indicate that teams must utilize at least two data from Data.Virginia.gov in two different domains. Datasets that were used from this domain include:

• Data.Virginia.gov, Commonwealth Data Point, Demographic Data, State Population, Cities and Counties
• http://datapoint.apa.virginia.gov/demographic/demographics_data.cfm

• Data.Virginia.gov, Commonwealth Data Point, Demographic Data, State Population, Towns
• http://datapoint.apa.virginia.gov/demographic/demographics_data.cfm

• Data.Virginia.gov, Health and Human Services, Department of Emergency Medical Assistance Services, Virginia Medicaid Provider Directory
• http://data.virginia.gov/hhr/

• Data.Virginia.gov, Health and Human Services, Virginia Department of Health Professionals, Doctor Profile Data
• http://data.virginia.gov/hhr/

Data sources outside of Data.Virginia.gov include:

• Center for Decease Control, Interactive Health Data, Hypertension, Ages 20+
• http://205.207.175.93/HDI/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=75

• Center for Decease Control, Interactive Health Data, Cholesterol Ages 20+
• http://205.207.175.93/HDI/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=74

• Center for Decease Control, Interactive Health Data, Obesity Ages 2-19
• http://205.207.175.93/HDI/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=543

• Center for Decease Control, Interactive Health Data, Vaccinations for Influenza and Pneumonia, Ages 1+
• http://205.207.175.93/HDI/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=677

Virginia DMV with Governor, pitching a dashboard for finding physicians by area and tracking geographic blind spots

dmvdatadrivers.blogspot feeds - API

Note:These full-site feeds are real-time enabled; developers can subscribe to low-latency updates by using the PubSubHubbub protocol.

• Atom 1.0: http://dmvdatadrivers.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
• RSS 2.0: http://dmvdatadrivers.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Comments-only feed:

• Atom 1.0: http://dmvdatadrivers.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default
• RSS 2.0: http://dmvdatadrivers.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss

Label-specific site feed:

• Atom 1.0: http://www.googleblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/privacy
• RSS 2.0: http://www.googleblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss/-/privacy

Individual post comment feed:

Note: You can find the postId of an individual post from the Posting | Edit Posts tab. Simply mouseover the 'Edit' link next to a particular post, and that postId will be displayed in your browser's status bar.

• Atom 1.0: http://dmvdatadrivers.blogspot.com/feeds/postId/comments/default
• RSS 2.0: http://dmvdatadrivers.blogspot.com/feeds/postId/comments/default?alt=rss

Aneesh Chopra - Datathon Challenge Featured Speaker

Aneesh was the featured speaker during the 2015 Datathon Challenge where he focused on the concepts of Open Data and the value of Application Programming Interfaces (API).

Check out Aneesh Chopra's video discussing "How New Technologies Can Transform Government".